Alexander Linton of the Session Technology Foundation on building decentralized messaging and why platform-wide content moderation is impractical on encrypted platforms.

Current wiki to be decommissioned in August 2026 due to content quality, security and usability concerns.

And we enter the Christmas month.

Canonical announce Ubuntu Pro for WSL, bringing extended security coverage to users running Linux on Windows. As on desktop, it's free for personal use.

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Other SBCs offer more RAM at this price point. So, should you still pay $45 for a 1 GB Pi?

Lack of end-to-end encryption makes international cloud services unsuitable, privatim says.

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And he is not wrong actually.

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta is due to be released in the coming weeks, but what new features can you expect to find in it? A quick recap on why this matters.

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The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025.

It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions care about.

Here’s a breakdown of the most significant changes and improvements in this release:

Core Improvements: Performance, Memory, Infrastructure

• The kernel’s memory allocation subsystem gets a major upgrade with “sheaves”, a per-CPU caching layer for slab allocations. This reduces locking overhead and speeds up memory allocation and freeing, improving overall system responsiveness.

• A new device-mapper target dm-pcache arrives, enabling use of persistent memory (e.g. NVDIMM/CXL) as a cache layer for block devices, useful for systems with fast non-volatile memory, SSDs, or hybrid storage.

• Overall memory management and swapping performance have been improved, which should help under memory pressure or heavy workloads.

Networking & Security Enhancements

• Networking gets a boost: support for Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) in TCP, which can provide better congestion signals and more efficient network behaviour under load.

• A new option for PSP-encrypted TCP connections has been added, a fresh attempt to push more secure transport-layer encryption (like a more efficient alternative to IPsec/TLS for some workloads) under kernel control.

• The kernel now supports cryptographically signed BPF programs (eBPF), so BPF bytecode loaded at runtime can be verified for integrity. This is a noteworthy security hardening step.

• The overall security infrastructure and auditing path, including multi-LSM (Linux Security Modules) support, has been refined, improving compatibility for setups using SELinux, AppArmor, or similar simultaneously.

Hardware, Drivers & Architecture Coverage

• Kernel 6.18 brings enhanced hardware support: updated and new drivers for many platforms across architectures (x86_64, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, etc.), including improvements for GPUs, CPU power management, storage controllers, and more.

• In particular, support for newer SoCs, chipsets, and embedded-board device trees has been extended, beneficial for people using SBCs, ARM-based laptops/boards, or niche hardware.

• For gaming rigs, laptops, and desktops alike: improvements to drivers, power-state management, and performance tuning may lead to better overall hardware efficiency.

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

Current Promotions

• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
• Protect your personal data, keep yourself safe with Surfshark VPN: See current promotion

Recent News

• Install media including this update: Release 202511171108 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.17 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Kernels
• Pamac 11.7.4
• COSMIC Beta 8
• GStreamer 1.26.9
• Haskell and Python updates

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

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Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.301
• linux510 5.10.246
• linux515 5.15.196
• linux61 6.1.158
• linux66 6.6.118
• linux612 6.12.60
• linux617 6.17.10
• linux618 6.18.0
• linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
• linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
• linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
• linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (12/2/25 13:51 CET)

• testing core x86_64: 18 new and 18 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1816 new and 1807 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 9 new and 10 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

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Code Wiki uses Gemini to create and maintain up-to-date documentation for code repositories.

Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.

Along with macro recording, customizable hotkeys, and enhanced PDF redaction tools.

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When someone visits your website, their browser and your server exchange information back and forth. Without encryption, this conversation happens

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A recap of Linux app releases in November 2025, including updates to Blender, Euphonica, Vivaldi, Blender, Shotcut and a clutch of indispensable VLC tools.

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ONLYOFFICE 9.2 is out. The free, open-source office suite now includes a built-in AI Agent for document generation, content analysis, and more. Feature details inside.

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The Raspberry Pi 5 price list has changed: most models jump up, with the 16GB model hitting $145. However, a cheaper 1GB version is now available – is it any good?

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Welcome to the new monthly unstable branch thread.

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• GStreamer 1.26.9
• COSMIC Beta 9

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A clean roundup of what’s been added under the hood.